SpeakCoveOverview
These terms cover the SpeakCove app for iPhone, iPad and Android and the free online reader on this website. By using them, you agree to these terms. SpeakCove is made by an independent developer.
App Store and Google Play
If you got SpeakCove from the App Store, Apple's Licensed Application End User License Agreement applies too, and these terms add to it. If you got it from Google Play, the Google Play Terms of Service apply to your download and purchases.
Use Restrictions for the Voices
SpeakCove's voices are made with Supertonic 3 by Supertone Inc., a voice model licensed under the BigScience OpenRAIL-M License. SpeakCove ships a modified copy of the model, and the app shows the license and the changes under Settings, Acknowledgements. The license requires everyone who uses the model to accept its use restrictions.
You agree not to use SpeakCove's voices, the voice model or the speech made with them:
- (a) In any way that violates any applicable national, federal, state, local or international law or regulation;
- (b) For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way;
- (c) To generate or disseminate verifiably false information and/or content with the purpose of harming others;
- (d) To generate or disseminate personal identifiable information that can be used to harm an individual;
- (e) To generate or disseminate information and/or content (e.g. images, code, posts, articles), and place the information and/or content in any context (e.g. bot generating tweets) without expressly and intelligibly disclaiming that the information and/or content is machine generated;
- (f) To defame, disparage or otherwise harass others;
- (g) To impersonate or attempt to impersonate (e.g. deepfakes) others without their consent;
- (h) For fully automated decision making that adversely impacts an individual’s legal rights or otherwise creates or modifies a binding, enforceable obligation;
- (i) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against or harming individuals or groups based on online or offline social behavior or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics;
- (j) To exploit any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons based on their age, social, physical or mental characteristics, in order to materially distort the behavior of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
- (k) For any use intended to or which has the effect of discriminating against individuals or groups based on legally protected characteristics or categories;
- (l) To provide medical advice and medical results interpretation;
- (m) To generate or disseminate information for the purpose to be used for administration of justice, law enforcement, immigration or asylum processes, such as predicting an individual will commit fraud/crime commitment (e.g. by text profiling, drawing causal relationships between assertions made in documents, indiscriminate and arbitrarily-targeted use).
Your Documents and Audio
You are responsible for the documents you open in SpeakCove and for how you use the speech it makes from them, including any audio you share. Only open and share content you have the right to use.
Books and Papers From Other Sources
The book store and paper search find works from Project Gutenberg, arXiv and other sources. They stay under their sources' terms and licenses, and SpeakCove does not check or vouch for their content.
Credits
Paper data from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and Unpaywall. Thank you to arXiv for use of its open access interoperability. This product was not reviewed or approved by, nor does it necessarily express or reflect the policies or opinions of, arXiv.
No Warranty
SpeakCove is provided as is, without warranties of any kind. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for damages from using it, including speech that mispronounces or misreads a document.
Changes to These Terms
If these terms change, we update them here with a new date.